Benevolence and Redemption by @silveredglass
Harry/Draco (2021, Mature, 19k)
Draco’s the most unlikely Auror recruited to the department in at least three centuries. Ostracised and unwanted, he’s been on paperwork duties for the three years since he finished training. Harry is the Saviour of the Wizarding World with nice forearms and too-large hands who suddenly starts turning up in the Ministry gym when Draco’s there, and sitting on Draco’s desk, and asking for Draco’s assistance on cases.
There was a part of Draco that he hated. He couldn’t let go of it fully; it was the part of him that allowed him to wear his placid mask of unconcerned nonchalance in public―but it was also the part of him that allowed him to have hope, allowed him to still admit his talents and masteries.
Yes hello, here I am again with another Erised rec because everyone and their mom deserve to check this fun case fic with Auror Partners goodness, thirsty Draco, smitten Harry and hands down some of the best written flirting I’ve seen in fic. I’m not even kidding, every come on line made my jaw drop in delight, the way the dialogue goes from case talk to sexy teasing is phenomenal! I couldn’t stop smiling at their cute word game, the way Draco double checks himself all the time and feels slightly intimidated by Harry’s bold advances but then gives it back just as good. It’s such a joy to watch!
Beyond those deliciously jaw dropping bits of sexual tension that made me both smile and salivate, I’m hopelessly in love with their voices: down and out Draco but make him proud and sassy, please and thank? This take is absolutely captivating, and for all his long-time standing crush he holds his own against this casual and smooth, confident Harry really well. Their dynamics are so charming, a mix of growing respect & attraction, and I love that they compliment each other not only in banter but also in the field (Harry’s instinct + Draco’s brain is such a power combo). It was lovely to see this closed off Draco - so very relatable, wanting to remain invisible and safe - get well-deserved recognition at work, and slowly open up to Harry embracing the vulnerability that comes with it.
And what can I say about their glorious get together aka hot office snogging? They’re so into each other I wanted to scream, and Harry’s dirty talk made my knees weak omfg he’s so feral and wanton, btw have I mentioned lacy pants because we were just talking about this last night and yes 🔥 (on that note I LOVE the conversation about objectification this kink inspired in that scene, really well done). Lastly I’m utterly in love with Pansy & Astoria, they’re the best friends Draco could ask for and their dynamics with him are sweet and hilarious. I had so much fun reading this case fic, the story flows perfectly, it’s charming and entertaining. And despite the light tone, there’s an important and sensitive portrayal of themes like anxiety and self-deprecation that I really appreciated, and made this fic all the more special to me. Go forth and enjoy the ride!
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H/D Erised 2021 Reveals!
Thank you so very much to all our amazing writers, artists, pinch-hitters, readers, commenters, and reccers who once again made this fest such an amazing success!
If you haven’t had time to make it through all the fantastic works here yet, we hope that you’ll still read and leave some love for our writers and artists! Comments are appreciated all year round! ;) And a special shout-out, again, to our ever-expanding list of all-star commenters: blueheart_v, khalulu, Oakstone730 and Omi_Ohmy!! Thank you!!!
We’ll be going through the works today, revealing the authors on AO3, removing the mod account as a co-author, and adding the creator names to the tumblr headers. We’ll be sending the participants a wrap-up email when we’ve finished with all the final admin things on our end.
We’ll also be reblogging our headers, now with our brilliant creators revealed, over the next day or so. Keep an eye out, and keep on celebrating, reblogging, and leaving love for our phenomenal creators!
Thanks again for making this another brilliant round of Erised! We hope to see you all again next year!
<3 @dictacontrion, @firethesound, & @gracerene
ART
@thelanguidcat drew warm enough for the two of us for Omi_Ohmy [T]
sharperthana drew cover me for @ronbinary [T]
@pan-sowa drew Mesmerising and mysterious ancient art for @shiftylinguini [M]
@laughinglynx drew But Every Night Come Out These Envoys of Beauty for @amywaterwings [G]
@maskofcognito drew Vacation for @resilientkitteh [G]
@secretartlair drew Repeat Performance for @rei382 [M]
@apriicat drew Touch for @vukovich [M]
@fantalf drew May I Sit? for @digthewriter [G]
@digthewriter drew Stay the night. for the @hd-erised Community [G]
@okay-sky drew Home for the Holidays for @darkravenwrote [G]
sharperthana drew His Flashing Eyes, His Floating Hair! for @fantalf [T]
@apriicat drew Capture for @silveredglass [G]
FIC & ART
@greaseonmymouth created monsters on the second floor for @blue–dreaming [G, ~2.5k]
Summary: The IDRU (Inter-Dimensional Repair Unit) is the least known and most underfunded department in Magical Pest Control. This may be about to change.
FIC
@amywaterwings wrote The Truth About Love for @agentmoppet [E, ~53k]
Summary: In which Draco is a high-powered magical divorce lawyer and Harry is the Unspeakable assigned to seduce him. It goes as well as one might expect.
@ronbinary wrote Truth, Dares, and Love Affairs for @fencer-x [T, ~17k]
Summary: NEWTs are approaching, Mind Healing is mandatory, and something is wrong with the castle.
And then, there’s Potter.
@etalice wrote Up here (everything is different) for khalulu [T, ~15k]
Summary: After the war, Draco left England and made a new life for himself, working as a mountain rescue specialist in the alps and trying to become an entirely different person. He’s not happy, not quite, but he’s safe and he’s stable and it’s better than nothing. Then, Harry Potter shows up.
@moonflower-rose wrote Beneath the Wave for @thehoneybeet [M, ~30k]
Summary: Harry is done with a life in the spotlight. No more adventures, no more mortal peril. He wants a quiet life of food and friends, and family. He even manages to have it for a while, until suddenly there are giant rabbits that need ferrying to a mysterious island, and a handsome Draco Malfoy, and Harry’s right back in the middle of the action again, despite his best efforts.
@blue–dreaming wrote The Picardy Third for @laughinglynx [T, ~5k]
Summary: A Picardy third is ending a piece on a major chord instead of the minor everyone expects. An unexpected ending. After the war, Harry and Draco are both struggling. As events contrive to draw them together, can they help each other move forward?
@vukovich wrote Fearful Trill for the hd_erised Community [E, ~30k]
Summary: Harry should have come out and met someone when he was younger. He should have seen a doctor about the pain in his hip while youth was still on his side. Now, he’s made his peace with dying young, but maybe not with dying alone.
Draco should have got the Kiss. He should have died in Azkaban decades ago. Instead, guards throw him in a Ministry lift with a dying man who could stand to live a little.
@honeydewinter wrote Draco Malfoy and the Quest for the Wanton Wordsmith for @maskofcognito [M, ~20k]
Summary: Draco is infuriated that someone is writing thinly veiled erotica about him and Potter. It’s being published in The Quibbler,but Luna refuses to tell him the identity of the author! He has no choice but to contact Harry Potter, who reluctantly agrees to help him solve the mystery.
@dwell-the-brave wrote And I Looked, and behold-! for @pan-sowa [M, ~33k]
Summary: A Squib is found dead in a London flat and Harry Potter is on the case. But all is not what it seems as more people start to die of unknown causes. What does The Pale Horse have to do with this? And what does Draco Malfoy know?
@resilientkitteh wrote Feline Animagi for @honeydewinter [T, ~5k]
Summary: In the Forest of Dean two big cat Animagi roam into each other and become friends, before realizing who they are in human form.
@greenmegsnoham wrote Leave it to Fate for @camisoul-stars [E, ~46k]
Summary: Sometimes you need to walk away from a relationship that is no longer enough, leave your job of twenty years to work in a coffee shop, and meet the right person at the right time on an anonymous dating app.
But when things go wrong, you just need to leave it to Fate.
@drarryruinedme7 wrote happiness, unplanned for @candybarrnerd [E, ~13k]
Summary: Harry left for Ireland with his dog, a backpack, and the desire to put as much distance between him, and his unfulfilling life back in London, as possible. So why the hell does he keep running into Draco Malfoy? And why does he enjoy it so much?
@persephoneapples wrote The Fortune You Seek is in Another Cookie for @ladderofyears [G, ~3k]
Summary: On his first date with Harry, Draco’s fortune cookie had stated you will die alone and poorly dressed. Fortunately, that particular fortune hasn’t come true. Unfortunately, every single fortune cookie that Draco has opened since that first date has been terrible. That doesn’t mean he won’t stop searching for the perfect fortune for however long it takes him.
@agentmoppet wrote It’s No Great Mystery for @pennygalleon [E, ~57k]
Summary: Who on earth decided that bringing back the Yule Ball for their eighth year would be a good idea? It feels like the worst day of Harry’s life, watching everyone get glammed up like the war never happened, like the last Triwizard Tournament wasn’t such a colossal failure.
And then it happens again. And again. And again.
khalulu wrote What Country, Friends, Is This? for @persephoneapples [M, ~8k]
Summary: When Harry and Draco are paired up for a nebulous “capstone project” in 8th year, Draco suggests they use it as an opportunity to take a free Grand Tour of Europe. Harry isn’t interested in being grand, and they soon veer off the beaten path. The journey to find what (and who) you really want can lead to unexpected places. (As well as Bertha Jorkins’ aunt, Illyrian Serpent cults, heroic baby Draco tales, and Slytherins singing Motown.)
@thehoneybeet wrote Euphoria for @andithiel [M, ~35k]
Summary: On a cold December evening, Draco disappeared from Harry’s life without a trace, and Harry hasn’t seen him since.
Six years later, Harry is at his wit’s end with a case involving a string of apparent murder-suicides. As a last resort, he is instructed to consult with the Department of Mysteries for potions knowledge to identify an unknown substance in the victim’s blood. But Mysteries is just that—mysterious—and he soon discovers that things are never exactly as they seem.
In which Harry and Draco solve a mystery of several different kinds.
@romaine2424 wrote Home Is Where the Cat Is for @m0srael [E, ~41k]
Summary: It’s summer and the war is over. Harry is busy in Auror training, attending Wizengamot trials for Slytherin classmates, and having tea with Narcissa Malfoy. Draco is at Hogwarts sharing deep dark secrets with classmates whilst helping with the reconstruction. Someone on the Wizengamot doesn’t think the older Slytherin students should be allowed to return to Hogwarts, whilst Harry does. Repressed emotions get the better of him. After storming out of the Ministry swearing never to come back, but before he lifts his wand for the Knight Bus outside of the Leaky Cauldron on his quest for a normal life, there’s a kiss in the Slytherin boys’ dormitories.
@candybarrnerd wrote light as the sky above for @okay-sky [E, ~6k]
Summary: Harry notices Draco leave.
Harry’s always had one eye watching Draco, and old habits die hard.
@m0srael wrote To Vanish Into Something Better for @corvuscrowned [E, ~35k]
Summary: Harry Potter thought he could outrun the burden of infamy by isolating himself in the Muggle world. Draco Malfoy hasn’t been seen or heard from since his trial. Will a top-secret Ministry project, a beautiful garden, and a little heat carry them both home?
@gracerene wrote No Winning Without Losing for @greenmegsnoham [E, ~7k]
Summary: If Draco had to lose to another Seeker, at least it was to somebody talented, somebody who really gave him a run for his money.
He just wished that somebody wasn’t Harry Potter.
@camisoul-stars wrote The Man With the Dragon Tattoo for @thelanguidcat [M, ~8k]
Summary: Though they haven’t seen each other for ten years, Draco enlists Harry’s help when his son goes missing. Harry and Draco grow closer, but is this just a temporary infatuation?
Strands of long blond hair flew around the man’s face, showing flashes of multiple ear piercings, as he strode down the sidewalk towards Harry. His long, long legs were hugged by tight faded jeans and heavy black work boots covered his feet. The faded black band t-shirt exposed the numerous tattoos on both his arms. In short, this man checked every one of Harry’s boxes.
But as he drew closer one problem became glaringly apparent. He also ticked the box of childhood nemesis. Because striding towards Harry was none other than Draco Malfoy, whom Harry hadn’t seen since his trial after the war over ten years ago.
@corvuscrowned wrote Loverboys for @secretartlair [E, ~84k]
Summary: As post-war violence and tensions rise, it seems as if there’s no hope to unify the wizarding world. Except, maybe, a manufactured relationship between resident Saviour Harry Potter and known purveyor of the Dark Arts Draco Malfoy. (The fact that they detest each other is beside the point.)
But as Draco’s unrelenting mind games begin to wear him down, Harry has to remind himself that it’s all fake. The relationship is fake. The affection is fake. The pet names, the romance — even the engagement photos are fake.
But there’s something in Draco’s kiss that might just be real.
@andithiel wrote Into You for @apriicat [E, ~29k]
Summary: There were many things that Harry had anticipated when arriving back at Hogwarts for his eighth year. Having his body switched with Draco Malfoy’s was not one of them.
@pennygalleon wrote Take These Lies for @writcraft [E, ~20k]
Summary:There’s a portrait of his godfather in Draco Malfoy’s potions shop and Harry needs to know why.
But that’s not why he keeps coming back.
@i-didnt-wanna-do-it wrote Draco Malfoy and the Crupnapper for @moonflower-rose [E, ~35k]
Summary: Life as a night shift creature keeper is scarcely the life Draco once imagined for himself, but ten years after the death of Voldemort he’s accepted his fate. Until the day Harry Potter forces his way back into Draco’s world and everything turns upside down.
@maraudersaffair wrote Draco’s Christmas Secret for @drarryruinedme7 [E, ~16k]
Summary: It’s after the war and Draco works in an apothecary in Diagon Alley. He enjoys the day-to-day, but he is alone in the world. Then, one Christmas, Harry re-enters his life, and everything changes.
@rei382 wrote Wake Up And Smell The Coffee for sharperthana [T, ~23k]
Summary: It takes 5 really bad dates for Draco to realise that the right person is right in front of him.
@darkravenwrote wrote A Dovely Compromise for Romaine [T, ~6k]
Summary: Draco’s idea of a good Yule is quiet and cosy. Potter prefers bold exclamations of festivity from…absurdly early in the year. Draco wonders if they’re truly compatible with each other. What they can both agree on, though, is that burning all things Christmas to the ground isn’t the way to go.
@ladderofyears wrote We Keep This Love in A Photograph for @maraudersaffair [E, ~46k]
Summary: Find your happy ending. The whole idea was ludicrous. His life consisted of loneliness, poverty and Master Potioneer Phillips’s petty tyrannies. Draco was grateful he wasn’t readying himself for prison, but the next fourteen years would be a long sentence nevertheless.
When Draco is sentenced to a probation term of fourteen years, his future looks grim. Not only does he have to surrender his passport, but he is forbidden from having any contact with his beloved Mum. He lives in scruffy rooms on Knockturn Alley, works long hours as an Apothecary Apprentice and doesn’t feel like he has much of a future.
Everything changes on the third of December, 1999. That evening Harry Potter sits beside Draco in the Thestral Tavern, returns his wand and asks to take his photograph with a Muggle Polaroid camera.
@shiftylinguini wrote Come Up For Air for SapphireQuill [E, ~13k]
Summary: In a train station in Northern Europe, while waiting to attend a Quidditch convention as the representative for Finland’s top Quidditch team, Draco Malfoy goes into heat.
Across the platform, Harry Potter notices. Because of course he bloody does.
@writcraft wrote The Ghosts of Hogwarts Past for @etalice [E, ~30k]
Summary: Draco has hardly had time to bask in his promotion to Head of Slytherin House when he gets news of Harry Potter’s return to Hogwarts. With his increased workload, the reappearance of the ex he never got over, the ghost that won’t let him sleep, and some curious coded diaries, it’s shaping up to be a hell of a year.
SapphireQuill wrote Healer’s Touch for @dwell-the-brave [G, ~7k]
Summary: Harry has a problem; Draco might be the solution.
@silveredglass wrote Benevolence and Redemption for @greaseonmymouth [M, ~18k]
Summary: Draco’s the most unlikely Auror recruited to the department in at least three centuries. Ostracised and unwanted, he’s been on paperwork duties for the three years since he finished training.
Harry is the Saviour of the Wizarding World with nice forearms and too-large hands who suddenly starts turning up in the Ministry gym when Draco’s there, and sitting on Draco’s desk, and asking for Draco’s assistance on cases.
When Draco’s charm work and penchant for Muggle crosswords are helpful for a case, Potter co-opts him as a partner, and Draco’s insulated, organised, hiding-in-plain-sight existence is stripped away.
@fencer-x wrote Beds, Knobs, and Broomsticks for the hd_erised Community [E, ~46k]
Summary: A long-term mission to the Baltics that will take him far away from London sounds like the perfect time to cash in the embarrassing ‘Butler in the Buff’ coupon Harry received as a birthday gag gift—until Harry winds up injured in the field and sent home to recover three days into the mission, obliging him to endure one full month of inappropriate attentions from horny housekeeper Draco Malfoy.
Omi_Ohmy wrote Water, Shadow, and Bone for @i-didnt-wanna-do-it [E, ~53k]
Summary: Potions professor Draco notices DADA professor Potter’s increasing absences. He hates himself for caring, but where is he going? What is he doing?
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